

Bankrupt builder, healthy project? Hope is at hand for home buyers
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Real estate bankruptcies may be resolved project by project, and healthy projects of stressed builders spared the bankruptcy court, if a top committee's suggestions bear fruit. The two suggestions are among the committee's 155 recommendations aimed to make real estate rescues more efficient, consistent, predictable and effective, two people aware of the matter said.The committee, set up by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), recommended that the ministry of corporate affairs, department of financial services and real estate regulatory bodies jointly lay down the framework for project-wise real estate debt resolution.
Completed or substantially completed projects should be excluded from assets available for bankruptcy resolution, said the committee. The IBBI had formed the eight-member panel led by wholetime director Jayanti Prasad following a direction issued by the Supreme Court in September 2025.Project-wise resolution protects homebuyers in financially healthy projects when the builder goes down, and thus, from possible haircuts or delays in getting their homes.
Real estate and construction together account for 44% of the over 8,800 companies so far admitted in tribunals under the bankruptcy code, the second largest class of stressed businesses after manufacturing, as per data available from IBBI. The recommendations aim to improve the confidence of home buyers, creditors and investors.The expert committee’s recommendations are timely and directionally significant for restoring confidence in real estate insolvency resolution, said Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman of National Real Estate Development Council (Naredco), a self-regulatory body set up under the Ministry of
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